INTRODUCTION Early prediction of a good outcome in comatose patients after cardiac arrest still remains an unsolved problem. The main aim of the present study was to examine the accuracy of middle-latency SSEP triggered by a painful electrical stimulation on median nerves to predict a favorable outcome. METHODS No- and low-flow times, pupillary reflex, Glasgow motor score and biochemical data...

The afferent input following stroke has an important role in motor relearning. The purpose of this study is to describe the relationship between upper limb clinical motor function and the status of the afferent system among chronic stroke survivors. Twenty-four chronic stroke survivors participated in the study. Clinical motor function of the paretic arm was assessed with the upper extremity po...

OBJECTIVE Somatosensory evoked potential (SSEP) is an electrophysiological test used to evaluate sensory innervations in peripheral and central neuropathies. Pudendal SSEP has been studied in dysfunctions related to the lower urinary tract and pelvic floor. Although some authors have already described technical details pertaining to the method, the standardization and the influence of physiolog...

Acute focal ischemia was created in 10 cats by unilateral retro-orbital middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion. Regional cerebral blood flow (CBF) was determined utilizing the hydrogen clearance technique from electrode recordings within the gray matter and white matter of the ectosylvian gyrus of both hemispheres. The somatosensory evoked potential (SSEP) was obtained during contralateral medi...

BACKGROUND Mild therapeutic hypothermia alters the validity of a number of parameters currently used to predict neurological outcome after cardiac arrest and resuscitation. Thus, additional parameters are needed to increase certainty of early prognosis in these patients. A promising new approach is the determination of the gray-white-matter ratio (GWR) in cranial computed tomography (CCT) obtai...

MOTIVATION The prediction of protein domains is a crucial task for functional classification, homology-based structure prediction and structural genomics. In this paper, we present the SSEP-Domain protein domain prediction approach, which is based on the application of secondary structure element alignment (SSEA) and profile-profile alignment (PPA) in combination with InterPro pattern searches....

STUDY DESIGN Systematic review. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to determine the predictive value of combined multimodality somatosensory evoked potential (SSEP) and transcranial motor evoked potential (TcMEP) monitoring in detecting impending neurological injury during surgery for idiopathic scoliosis. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA The diagnostic of motor evoked potential monitoring and SS...

We have studied the effect of i.v. midazolam on median nerve somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP) in 10 unpremedicated adults. Anaesthesia was induced with midazolam by bolus administration (0.2 mg kg-1) followed by infusion (5 mg h-1). The latency and amplitudes of the SSEP responses over the second cervical vertebrae (SC2) and sensory cortex (P17, N20, P25) were recorded before and for 10 m...

Median and tibial nerve somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs) of 5 sedated dogs were studied to determine their normal features and optimal stimulation and recording techniques. Cortical potentials were mapped from an extensive array of skull electrodes as each limb was independently stimulated with subdermal needles. The effects of bandpass and stimulus intensity and rate were also assessed....

IMPORTANCE Perioperative stroke is a persistent complication of carotid endarterectomy (CEA) for patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis (CS). OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether changes in somatosensory evoked potential (SSEP) during CEA are diagnostic of perioperative stroke in patients with symptomatic CS. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS We searched PubMed and the World Science Database f...